diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 033c2e6..352763c 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ The project is under active development. Core blogging workflows are broadly ava
 - Local MCP automation over stdio or a localhost-only stateless HTTP endpoint, with project resources, read/search/count tools, inert write proposals, explicit desktop approval, and opt-in Claude Code/Copilot configuration.
 - A fully localized Ratatui terminal workspace, available locally through `bds-cli tui`/`BDS_MODE=tui` and remotely through authenticated SSH shell sessions, with shared post/template/script editing and publishing, project/search/command overlays, settings, tags, Git, reports, task progress, live multi-client locale updates, and airplane-mode AI gating.
 - `bds-cli server` hosting the shared application engines over a loopback-by-default, public-key-only SSH service, with restrictive private key material, live authorization updates, terminal-session transport, CLI-change synchronization, ordered domain/task events, and native desktop remote-project selection.
-- bDS2-compatible Markdown/Liquid rendering with built-in macros rendered from bundled Liquid templates in isolated scopes (customizable with `macros/*` partial-template slugs), descriptive category archive titles, canonical multilingual and flat page routes for every configured blog language, recursive menus, calendar archives, feeds, a root hreflang sitemap, Pagefind, and incremental site generation through cancellable section task groups.
+- bDS2-compatible Markdown/Liquid rendering with built-in macros rendered from bundled Liquid templates in isolated scopes (customizable with `macros/*` partial-template slugs), descriptive category archive titles, canonical multilingual and flat page routes for every configured blog language, recursive menus, calendar archives, feeds, a root hreflang sitemap, Pagefind, and incremental site generation and validation repair through cancellable section task groups.
 - Navigable generated-route preview in the app or system browser, with draft database overlays and published filesystem content.
 - Optional one-shot AI translation, description, analysis, taxonomy, and language-detection operations run in background tasks with editor-level waiting indicators, using provider-portable JSON-only requests through independent online and local OpenAI-compatible profiles. Each profile has secure credentials, persistently discovered chat/title/image model selections, explicit tool/vision overrides, chat testing, and restart-persistent status-bar airplane-mode routing.
 - Persistent conversational AI with safe Markdown, streamed and cancellable responses, model/session/token tracking, bounded project-aware blog tools, and localized conversation management in the Chat workspace. Allowlisted render tools add persistent native cards, charts, forms, lists, metrics, mind maps, tables, and tabs without executing assistant-provided HTML or JavaScript.
diff --git a/crates/bds-core/src/engine/generation.rs b/crates/bds-core/src/engine/generation.rs
index 0f911b5..110b686 100644
--- a/crates/bds-core/src/engine/generation.rs
+++ b/crates/bds-core/src/engine/generation.rs
@@ -823,20 +823,10 @@ pub(crate) fn classify_generated_path(
 }
 
 fn has_language_prefix(parts: &[&str], metadata: &ProjectMetadata) -> bool {
-    match parts {
-        [first, second, ..] => {
-            render_languages(metadata)
-                .iter()
-                .any(|language| language.eq_ignore_ascii_case(first))
-                && (*second == "index.html"
-                    || *second == "404.html"
-                    || *second == "page"
-                    || is_year_segment(second)
-                    || *second == "category"
-                    || *second == "tag")
-        }
-        _ => false,
-    }
+    parts.len() > 1
+        && render_languages(metadata)
+            .iter()
+            .any(|language| language.eq_ignore_ascii_case(parts[0]))
 }
 
 fn is_year_segment(value: &str) -> bool {
diff --git a/crates/bds-core/tests/m4_generation_engine.rs b/crates/bds-core/tests/m4_generation_engine.rs
index 001c233..805a876 100644
--- a/crates/bds-core/tests/m4_generation_engine.rs
+++ b/crates/bds-core/tests/m4_generation_engine.rs
@@ -850,6 +850,68 @@ fn configured_language_prefixes_select_their_actual_validation_section() {
     );
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn localized_page_paths_select_the_core_validation_section() {
+    let mut metadata = make_metadata();
+    metadata.blog_languages.push("de".into());
+    let report = bds_core::engine::validate_site::SiteValidationReport {
+        missing_pages: vec!["de/about/index.html".into()],
+        extra_pages: Vec::new(),
+        stale_pages: Vec::new(),
+    };
+
+    assert_eq!(
+        sections_from_validation_report(&report, &metadata),
+        vec![GenerationSection::Core]
+    );
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn validation_apply_repairs_and_cleans_localized_page_outputs() {
+    let (db, dir) = setup();
+    let mut metadata = make_metadata();
+    metadata.blog_languages = vec!["en".into(), "de".into()];
+    bds_core::engine::meta::write_project_json(dir.path(), &metadata).unwrap();
+    let mut page = make_post("about", 1_710_000_000_000);
+    page.categories = vec!["page".into()];
+    write_published_snapshot(&dir, &mut page, "About");
+    bds_core::db::queries::post::insert_post(db.conn(), &page).unwrap();
+    let posts = vec![PublishedPostSource {
+        post: page,
+        body_markdown: "About".into(),
+    }];
+
+    generate_starter_site(db.conn(), dir.path(), "p1", &metadata, &posts, "en").unwrap();
+    let localized_page = dir.path().join("de/about/index.html");
+    let localized_extra = dir.path().join("de/ghost/index.html");
+    std::fs::write(&localized_page, "tampered").unwrap();
+    std::fs::create_dir_all(localized_extra.parent().unwrap()).unwrap();
+    std::fs::write(&localized_extra, "ghost").unwrap();
+
+    let validation = validate_site(db.conn(), dir.path(), "p1").unwrap();
+    let sections = sections_from_validation_report(&validation, &metadata);
+    let applied =
+        apply_validation_sections(db.conn(), dir.path(), "p1", &metadata, &posts, &sections)
+            .unwrap();
+    let repaired = validate_site(db.conn(), dir.path(), "p1").unwrap();
+
+    assert_eq!(sections, vec![GenerationSection::Core]);
+    assert!(
+        applied
+            .written_paths
+            .contains(&"de/about/index.html".into())
+    );
+    assert!(
+        applied
+            .deleted_paths
+            .contains(&"de/ghost/index.html".into())
+    );
+    assert!(!localized_extra.exists());
+    assert!(repaired.missing_pages.is_empty());
+    assert!(repaired.extra_pages.is_empty());
+    assert!(repaired.stale_pages.is_empty());
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn validation_apply_removes_extra_output_under_configured_language() {
     let (db, dir) = setup();